Mazmur 18:11

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

(18-12) Ia membuat kegelapan di sekeliling-Nya menjadi persembunyian-Nya, ya, menjadi pondok-Nya: air hujan yang gelap, awan yang tebal.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
(18-12) Ia membuat kegelapan di sekeliling-Nya menjadi persembunyian-Nya, ya, menjadi pondok-Nya: air hujan yang gelap, awan yang tebal.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka Iapun mengendarai kerubiun, lalu terbang serta melayang-layang di atas sayap angin.

Contextual Overview

¹ I wyll entirely loue thee O God my strength, ² God is my stony rocke & my fortresse, and my delyuerer: my Lorde, my castell in whom I wyll trust, my buckler, the horne of my saluation, & my refuge. ³ I wyll call vpon God, who is most worthy to be praysed: so I shall be safe from myne enemies. ⁴ The panges of death haue compassed me about: and the outragiousnes of the wicked haue astonyed me with feare. ⁵ The panges of a graue haue compassed me about: the snares of death ouertoke me. ⁶ But in this my distresse I dyd call vppon God, and I made my complaynt vnto my Lorde: he hearde my voyce out of his temple, and my crye came before his face, euen vnto his eares. ⁷ The earth trembled and quaked: the very foundations of the hylles tottered and shooke, because he was wroth. ⁸ In his anger a smoke ascended vp: and a fire out of his mouth dyd cosume, and euery cole therof dyd set a fire. ⁹ He bowed the heauens also, and he came downe: and it was darke vnder his feete. ¹⁰ He ridde vpon the Cherub, and he dyd flee: he came fleeyng vpon the wynges of the wynde.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

secret: Psalms 27:5, Psalms 81:7, Psalms 91:1

thick: Psalms 97:2, Deuteronomy 4:11, Joel 2:2

Reciprocal: Exodus 14:20 - General Exodus 19:9 - Lo Exodus 19:16 - thunders 1 Samuel 7:10 - thundered 2 Samuel 22:12 - made Job 26:8 - thick clouds Job 36:30 - and Job 36:32 - General Job 38:19 - darkness Psalms 104:3 - Who layeth Isaiah 50:3 - General Jeremiah 43:10 - his royal Ezekiel 1:4 - a great Daniel 3:17 - our God Matthew 17:5 - behold

Cross-References

Genesis 17:17
But Abraham fell vppon his face, and laughed, and sayde in his heart: shall a chylde be borne vnto hym that is an hundreth yere olde? And shall Sara that is ninetie yere olde beare?

Genesis 17:24
Abraham also hym selfe was ninetie yere olde and nine when the fleshe of his foreskynne was circumcised.

Genesis 18:11
Abraham and Sara were both olde, and well stryken in age: and it ceassed to be with Sara after the maner as it is with women.

Genesis 18:12
Therefore Sara laughed within her selfe, saying: Nowe I am waxed olde shal I geue my selfe to lust, and my Lorde olde also?

Genesis 18:18
Seyng that Abraham shall surely be a great and a myghtie nation, and all the nations of the earth shalbe blessed in hym?

Genesis 18:21
I wyll go downe nowe, and see whether they haue done altogether accordyng to that crye whiche is come vnto me: and yf not, I wyll knowe.

Genesis 31:35
Then sayde she to her father: my Lord, be not angry that I can not ryse vp before thee, for the custome of women is come vpon me. So searched he, but founde not those images.

Leviticus 15:19
Also yf a woman shall haue an issue, [and] her issue in her fleshe shalbe blood, she shalbe put apart seuen dayes: whosoeuer toucheth her, shalbe vncleane vntyll the euen.

Luke 1:7
And they had no chylde, because that Elizabeth was barren: and they both were nowe well stricken in age.

Luke 1:18
And Zacharias saide vnto the Angel: By what token shall I know this? For I am olde, and my wyfe well stricken in yeres.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He made darkness his secret place,.... Which, and the dark waters in the next clause, are the same with the thick clouds in the last, in which Jehovah is represented as wrapping himself, and in which he lies hid as in a secret place; not so as that he cannot see others, as wicked men imagine, Job 22:13; but as that he cannot be beheld by others; the Targum interprets it,

"he caused his Shechinah to dwell in darkness;''

his pavilion round about him [were] dark waters, [and] thick clouds of the skies; these were as a tent or tabernacle, in which he dwelt unseen by men; see Job 36:29; all this may design the dark dispensation of the Jews, after their rejection and crucifixion of Christ; when God departed from them, left their house desolate, and them without his presence and protection; when the light of the Gospel was taken away from them, and blindness happened unto them, and they had eyes that they should not see, and were given up to a judicial darkness of mind and hardness of heart; which were some of the dark, deep, and mysterious methods of divine Providence, with respect to which God may be said to be surrounded with darkness, dark waters, and thick clouds; see Romans 11:7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He made darkness his secret place - Herder has beautifully rendered this verse,

“Now he wrapped himself in darkness;

Clouds on clouds enclosed him round.”

The word rendered “secret place” - סתר sêther - means properly a hiding; then something hidden, private, secret. Hence, it means a covering, a veil. Compare Job 22:14; Job 24:15. In Psalms 81:7 it is applied to thunder: “I answered thee in the secret place of thunder;” that is, in the secret place or retreat - the deep, dark cloud, from where the thunder seems to come. Here the meaning seems to be, that God was encompassed with darkness. He had, as it were, wrapped himself in night, and made his abode in the gloom of the storm.

His pavilion - His tent, for so the word means. Compare Psalms 27:5; Psalms 31:20. His abode was in the midst of clouds and waters, or watery clouds.

Round about him - Perhaps a more literal translation would be, “the things round about him - his tent (shelter, or cover) - were the darkness of waters, the clouds of the skies.” The idea is that he seemed to be encompassed with watery clouds.

Dark waters - Hebrew, darkness of waters. The allusion is to clouds filled with water; charged with rain.

Thick clouds of the skies - The word rendered skies in this place - שׁחקים shachaqiym - means, in the singular, dust, as being fine; then a cloud, as a cloud of dust; then, in the plural, it is used to denote clouds, Job 38:37; and hence, it is used to denote the region of the clouds; the firmament; the sky; Job 37:18. Perhaps a not-inaccurate rendering here would be, “clouds of clouds;” that is, clouds rolled in with clouds; clouds of one kind rapidly succeeding those of another kind - inrolling and piled on each other. There are four different kinds of clouds; and though we cannot suppose that the distinction was accurately marked in the time of the psalmist, yet to the slightest observation there is a distinction in the clouds, and it is possible that by the use of two terms here, both denoting clouds - one thick and dense, and the other clouds as resembling dust - the psalmist meant to intimate that clouds of all kinds rolled over the firmament, and that these constituted the “pavilion” of God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 18:11. He made darkness his secret place — God is represented as dwelling in the thick darkness, Deuteronomy 4:11; Psalms 97:2. This representation in the place before us is peculiarly proper; as thick heavy clouds deeply charged, and with lowering aspects, are always the forerunners and attendants of a tempest, and greatly heighten the horrors of the appearance: and the representation of them, spread about the Almighty as a tent, is truly grand and poetic.

Dark waters — The vapours strongly condensed into clouds; which, by the stroke of the lightning, are about to be precipitated in torrents of rain. See the next verse.